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WMM provides facility for you to easily crop any videos, if you are not familiar with Windows Movie Maker before, it might be a little difficult for you for using this tools. The below step-by-step guide is especially written for you to learn how to crop videos in Windows Movie Maker. Check it out right away.

Step 1. The first step will be installing the program to your computer system and then launch it. After that, importing all the files to work on into the timeline of Windows Movie Maker should follow. You should use the “import video” command available on the tasks list to have the video selected and then click “import” button.

Step 2. From the filters window of the program, you will see a button named “cropping” which you should click on. The button remains unusable until the point when you have added the filters and open them. Up to four controls will be visible on the cropping window which you will use along both X and Y axes to cut the video frame.

Step 3. Once you have attained the required size of your video after cropping, press on the “ok” button to complete the process. You will have done nothing if you don’t save the changes effected to the video and that should be on a standard format like AVI. The cropped file must be saved to a folder where accessing will be the easiest thing to do.

After effects is an important step to create a professional video. Follow the detail guide in the video below for more information.

Adobe After Effects is a great tool to replace Windows Movie Maker for video post-production which enables you to add professional looking special effects and retouches. If you use Adobe Premiere to edit your videos, then After Effects is the perfect complement to add special effects to your videos. Note that Adobe has now upgraded After Effects to the Creative Cloud (CC) suite which is based on a subscription model rather than a one-off license purchase.

A complete professional special effects suite

Whether you’re working in broadcast and film or delivering work online and to mobile devices, Adobe After Effects is one of the most professional consumer suites out there for helping you finish the job. Since Adobe After Effects is part of the Adobe CC suite, it integrates with the rest of Adobe’s products seamlessly meaning you can add unique touches to your effects in Illustrator or Photoshop for example.

In fact, Adobe After Effects features many tools that are similar to Adobe’s industry standard image editor Photoshop, but adapted for video. For example, the RotoBrush works in a similar way to Photoshop’s Magic Wand, enabling you to select silhouettes and place characters against any background without requiring a chroma screen. Adobe After Effects also includes more video-specific tools, such as Auto-Keyframe, which creates key frames automatically where you apply a video effect, and the Mesh warp effect in 3D, thanks to which you’ll be able to warp and distort your video as it if was a plain image.

What makes Adobe After Effects even better is the availability of third-party plug-ins Mocha, for example, is an advanced tracking system that helps you in the creation and adjustment of scenes. Another excellent Adobe After Effects plug-in is Color Finesse, with which you can work with color in your video like you’ve never done before.

With the upgrade to Creative Cloud, After Effects has also been improved with a number of other new features. These include the Live 3D Pipeline that brings CINEMA 4D scenes in as layers and the ability to share work directly with others from within the application. Creative Cloud is integrated with Behance, so you can share your projects and get immediate feedback from creative minds from around the world. With Creative Cloud, you also get instant access to new features the moment they’re released. Most recently, Adobe have also added Live Text templates, Masking and Tracking, Master Clip effect and a faster editing workflow.

Steep learning curve

As you might expect from an Adobe design product, After Effects is a very complicated package and takes hours of study and use before you can become competent in it. However, once mastered, Adobe After Effects’ choice of special effects and templates mean that your special effects will be as close to the professional thing as possible on a budget. However, anyone who is already familiar with Adobe’s video editing suite Premiere or will find the After Effects interface familiar and logically organized.

In addition, Like all of the Creative Cloud Suite, Adobe After Effects requires an ongoing subscription to Creative Cloud in order to use it. This offers advantages in that you can edit on the move and your work is always synced and backed up to Creative Cloud. The disadvantage is that you are locked into Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription model.

A powerful package for stunning special effects

Adobe After Effects is an incredibly powerful package which enables you to produce stunning special effects for your videos.

What’s New

The latest version of After Effects integrates Adobe Stock, the new image service from Adobe. There’s also enhanced use of real 3D objects with Cinema 4D as well as various improvements in scenes preview, among other changes.

This is the first tutorial in how to create your first video with Windows Movie Maker. In this tutorial, we will try to cover all common effects and features of WMM and put them all together to create a complete video.

Windows movie maker support importing videos and photo in multiple different kinds of cameras and devices. after the files has been copied from devices into your computer, you can use them in your movies and they’ll appear in Photo Gallery.

Below are the list of supported devices that can works with Windows Movie Maker software:

A digital camera or phone that’s connected to your PC with a USB cable